Google Cloud Engine - A powerful IAAS solution
March 15, 2024

Google Cloud Engine - A powerful IAAS solution

Anonymous | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Google Compute Engine

We use Google Compute Engine to run jenkins. This jenkins jobs do various tasks.
- Building products
- Running integration test
- Running accreditations tests
Before every release we set up a production grade deployment using Google Compute Engine and do performance test.
  • Running jenkins jobs
  • Running performance tests
  • Simulate a production environment before each release
  • GCE is only available only in three regions, They can add more regions.
  • Google can provide pricing model like AWS's reserved instances and spot instances .
  • They can improve the UI a bit better, when I get started I found it hard to get familier with the UI.
  • Google Compute Engine is cost effective compared to other solutions.
  • Its easy to choose the server from a wide variety of templates. So we can choose exactly the right size we want. No less no more. So its cost effective.
Google Compute Engine is better than other in terms of the pricing and the performance. But when it comes to ease of use i would prefer Azure Virtual Machines. Other than this I find GCE very competitive with these other solutions

Do you think Google Compute Engine delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Google Compute Engine's feature set?

Yes

Did Google Compute Engine live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Google Compute Engine go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Google Compute Engine again?

Yes

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), Amazon Lightsail, Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
GCE is cost effective when compared to other cloud provider solutions. I would recommend a colleague GCE. When I ran same performance test on aws ec2 and Google GCE i got better numbers in GCE. It could be related our product but for performance tests i prefer using GCE.

Google Compute Engine Feature Ratings

Dynamic scaling
7
Elastic load balancing
7
Pre-configured templates
10
Pre-defined machine images
6
Operating system support
10
Security controls
10